White Sox split doubleheader with Orioles

The White Sox showed their "split" personality in a day-night doubleheader Saturday.

After sleepwalking through an early-afternoon 5-1 loss to the Orioles, they came fighting back at night to win 6-5 with help from two very unexpected sources.

The hero was Brian Anderson, who contributed with his first two RBIs since Sept. 9, 2006, including the game-winner with the bases loaded in the ninth inning; and the helper was Mark Buehrle, who begged his way into a start with a last-minute morning plea.

It was a dramatic end to a long day of a split doubleheader that saw the Sox stop a skid that had reached four losses in six games.

For Anderson, it was a very strange end to a three-year saga of ups and downs and in-betweens. Before his big night, Anderson had appeared in fewer than half the games with the second-least number of at-bats of any player.

"It's not easy coming to [the ballpark] when you might play once a week and get one at-bat here and there," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "He has handled it real well … and everybody is happy for him because everybody likes him."

Anderson, a former first-round draft choice who started most of the 2006 season, admitted it's tough.

"It's not something I'm used to, but if that's what they need me for, so be it," he said. "I'll be there when they need me and continue to do that and hopefully one day get back to starting."

As for Buehrle, he talked his way—or, to be more modern about it, texted his way—back into the starting spot at night after losing out to rain after one inning Friday.

He had been rescheduled for Monday, as the Sox continue to protect the valuable left arm that has more than 1,600 innings on it since 2001, sprouting rumors that the Sox are hiding an injury.

Buehrle made it through six innings and left with a 5-3 lead after throwing 111 pitches. While it was not vintage Buehrle, it was good enough.

"I didn't want to get hit around too much because Ozzie wouldn't let me live it down for a while," Buehrle said. "Seriously, I felt like I didn't even throw [Friday]."

Reliever Boone Logan allowed two quick seventh-inning runs to keep Buehrle winless since April 6, although the victory—thanks to Anderson—finally went to closer Bobby Jenks, who pitched a scoreless, albeit shaky ninth.

The second game offense was much better than the first, which left Guillen in a foul mood and calling his team "flat," charging that "the intensity was not there."

Sox starter John Danks (2-2) went through five no-hit innings but ran into trouble in the sixth when catcher Guillermo Quiroz hit his first major-league homer with a man on base. Nonetheless, Danks was left with a season ERA of 3.00.